Gaza parents urged to stop kids flying kites after Israel warning to Hamas
Local committees urged parents to keep children from flying kites after Israel threatened forceful retaliation and said several kites crossed into border communities.
- Palestinian popular committees operating in Gaza displacement camps issued an urgent warning advising parents to stop their children from flying kites.
- The warning follows joint threats by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz to increase targeted assassinations and forcibly evacuate residential areas if kite and balloon launches across the border do not cease immediately.
- While Israeli forces confirmed that several kites recovered near border settlements carried no explosives or suspicious materials, defense officials warned they would treat any kite, balloon, or drone crossing the border as an act of war.
- Residents near the Gaza border reported the incidents revived painful memories of October 7, warning that ignoring these tactics could lead to repeating pre-October 7 security failures and complacency.
- Hamas officials dismissed the Israeli warnings as "fabricated pretexts" to justify further military operations and target Palestinian children, maintaining that the kites are simply toys used by children living in displacement camps.
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Gaza parents urged to stop children flying kites after Israel warning to Hamas | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
CAIRO >> Gaza parents have been warned to stop their children flying kites in the war-ravaged enclave, after Israel threatened a forceful response if the Hamas militant group revives a tactic of launching incendiary kites over the border.
The Hebrew state threatened to intensify its strikes on the Palestinian enclave after the discovery of several kites in a kibbutz. If they may seem harmless, they have sometimes been equipped with explosives in the past.
On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found Israel's threats to evacuate the population of the Gaza Strip from which kites, drones and balloons are thrown.
On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) found Israel's threats to evacuate the population of the Gaza Strip from where kites, kites and other armed groups are launched.
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